Military medical insurance
Members
of a blue-ribbon commission on Wednesday pushed lawmakers in the House to take
a hard look at their proposal for abolishing Tricare, the military’s health
insurance plan.
The proposal, one of 15 recommendations recently unveiled by the
Military Compensation and Retirement Modernization Commission, has quickly
become a source of fierce
debate on
Capitol Hill.
“Tricare is a broken program,” Commissioner Stephen Buyer told a
subpanel of the House Armed Services Committee.
Retired Adm. Edmund Giambastiani said Tricare is in a
“death spiral” because the program has been “squeezed” in the name of
efficiency, which has resulted in decreased access and fewer services.
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